Projects Quotes
This is a very important quotation for government officials because the time to complete modern digital tech projects are impossible to determine beforehand. It is only when one is well into the project and in many cases almost finished, that the technologists can accurately predict the finish date. The 2013 rollout of the computer system for Obama Care signup was one of the great examples.
The meeting was to discuss continuing strategy for the Civil Rights Movement. There were, at this point, several different directions in which they could go. The irony of this meeting is that King was not pleased that most of the other leaders did not place the strategic importance of the Memphis strike that he did. They wanted him do appear in other venues for other purposes. His statement about getting killed was meant for the others to consider carefully how and why they wanted King to appear. In a few days, he was killed in Memphis—not implementing one of the other leader’s “brilliant” ideas, but implementing his own where most of them thought it of secondary importance and would prefer that he appear elsewhere instead. After King’s assassination, every leader at that meeting wished that he had been more persuasive in talking King out of the Memphis activity.
This was in contrast to projects where designs, studies, engineering, permitting, and procurement had to first take place.
